by wwarren | Feb 2, 2025 | Hardware
Earlier I made this post about my initial thoughts on t he s25 series of phones but most pointedly the S25 Ultra. After seeing JerryRigEverything’s video about the even greater downgrades given to the S25 if you have a S Series that’s the s23 or the S24 I...
by wwarren | Feb 1, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting, Linux, Open Source
For the first 10 years of my hosting service I have used Ubuntu Server LTS. Ubuntu has become quite bloated and the amount of time I spent turning off cruft in the background has gotten to be on par with Windows. With RedHat now being totally a paid for product that...
by wwarren | Feb 1, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting
ETC Maryland would like to announce a further expansion of our hosting products. With our new datacenter partners, new opportunities have presented themselves and we would like to pass these opportunities to the general public. We would like to announce the...
by wwarren | Jan 22, 2025 | Android, Cloud Computing, Google, IOT
In summary..if you have a Pixel 8 Pro or Samsung S24 Ultra, The S25 series and Pixel 9 are not compelling upgrades. If you have a phone that’s more than two years old then upgrading might be a good idea. However, the Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung S24 series will...
by wwarren | Jan 20, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting
With our new datacenter partners ETC Maryland can now announce new hosting services for sites that either have high traffic needs or hosting without the limitations of shared hosting. The two new Services are virtual Private Servers. Two types of VPS servers are...
by wwarren | Nov 26, 2024 | Annoucements
I am switching my billing from annual to monthly for all services. Current pricing will be honored just converted to monthly. I am also changing my workstation and server anti-malware vendors now due to the changing threats we are seeing. Full details in the video...
by wwarren | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
https://mashable.com/article/google-chrome-killing-ad-blocker-ublock-origin Google I said they’re going to in support and they’re specifically targeting you block origin. That’s mainly because you block origin is excellent at blocking ads including...
by wwarren | Oct 30, 2023 | Firewalls, FreeBSD, Open Source, PFSense, Security, Ubiquiti
First Netgate announced their move away from PSense free(known as CE). This resulted in outcry but at least they announced their intentions. Recently, Netgate announced the termination of the free homelab PFSense plus license with no option to keep it running. ...
by wwarren | Oct 25, 2023 | Firewalls, PFSense
Remmber this post? I had mentioned I was going to move away from PFSense CE because Netgate said they are turning their focus to PFSense Plus. They then started saying come to PFSense+ for homelab..it’s free and eventually wil be $129/year. Well that has now...
by wwarren | Apr 2, 2023 | Annoucements, AVG
Avast has informed me a significant price increase starting January 1, 2024. As of this date ETC Maryland’s managed anti-malware by Avast will increase to $50/machine per year. If you know someone who wants or needs managed anti-malware have them contact me...